ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to identify and discusses some of the significant events/incidents related to disability in Hong Kong from 1841 to 2014. It describes the mindset of government, terminology, roles of stakeholders, legislation, service and practice, and the Welfare Sector Subvention Reform. All these changes have occurred as a result of the combined impacts of international trends and forces from the local civil society. The chapter argues that there have been a great many positive changes in the history of disability in Hong Kong. Chinese people do not feel comfortable having a child with disability because it brings disgrace to the family. The presence of a person with disability implies an imbalance of <italics>yin</italics> and <italics>yang</italics>, a problem that needs to be fixed. Disability-related developments from 1841 to 1976 is provided to illustrate that a large share of disability services were operated by nongovernmental organizations, and the Government played only a small part, confined mostly to some governance issues.
